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The Native American Women Playwrights Archive (NAWPA) is a collection of manuscripts and related items pertaining to Native American women in theater. It was established in 1997 at
Miami University Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio. The university was founded in 1809, making it the second-oldest university in Ohio (behind Ohio University, founded in 1804) and the 10 ...
in Oxford, Ohio and is located in the university's King Library. The archive is a repository for
Spiderwoman Theater Spiderwoman Theater is an American, Indigenous women's performance troupe that blends traditional art forms with Western theater. Their mission was to present exceptional theater performance, and to provide theatrical training and education in an ...
and contains promotional and personal documents associated with the theater troupe and its members.


History

NAWPA began in 1996 with Dr. William Wortman, humanities librarian, and John Allen Johnson, a Cherokee and African American graduate student researching Native American women playwrights at Miami University. Johnson had difficulty finding material to research, so the two built the archive by approaching writers and performers to add to the collection.


Holdings

The Native American Women Playwrights Archive in the King Library's Walter Havighurst Special Collections of Miami University contains play manuscripts and other materials including audio and video recordings of performances (VHS tapes, audio cassettes, CDs, and DVDs), photographs, newspaper articles, reviews, flyers, and posters. The archive also holds administrative and financial documents, notes, forms, mailings lists, and correspondence pertaining to the management of the archive and sponsored conferences and events. Other holdings include documents relating to the work of Spiderwoman Theater, such as photographs of performances, play programs, interviews, and personal accounts from the members of the theater troupe. There are also documents regarding the legal dispute with Marvel Comics over the name "Spiderwoman." All the materials in NAWPA are open-access and available for anyone to read in the library. NAWPA continuously adds new playwrights and works to its collection. The archive encourages "playwrights at any level of development" to submit their materials.


Publications

In 2008, University of Michigan Press published ''Footpaths and Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive'', edited by Shirley A. Huston-Findley and Rebecca Howard. The anthology includes a number of scripts from NAWPA and critical commentary on the recurring themes in the plays. Other related publications include: * ''Performing Worlds into Being: Native American Women's Theater'', edited by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon Johnson, and William A. Wortman (2009) * ''Repairing the Web: Spiderwoman's Children Staging the New Human Being'' by Jill L. Carter (2010) * ''Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays'', edited by Mimi Gisofi D'Aponte (1999) * ''Staging Coyote's Dream: An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English V.1 & 2'', edited by Monique and Ric Knowles (2003)


See also

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Spiderwoman Theater Spiderwoman Theater is an American, Indigenous women's performance troupe that blends traditional art forms with Western theater. Their mission was to present exceptional theater performance, and to provide theatrical training and education in an ...
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Native American dramatists and playwrights Native may refer to: People * Jus soli, citizenship by right of birth * Indigenous peoples, peoples with a set of specific rights based on their historical ties to a particular territory ** Native Americans (disambiguation) In arts and enterta ...
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Indigenous theatre Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention *Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band *Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...


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External links


Spiderwoman Theater official websiteNative American Women Playwrights Archive (finding aid)
Native American women's organizations + Theatre archives Archives in the United States Feminist theatre Indigenous theatre Intersectional feminism Race and society Native American history of Ohio Native American feminism